The Evolution of Blogging, Cat Version — So blogging has evolved once more, and the talk of the town - or at least the talk of Austin, Texas during the SXSW Conference - is Twitter, that increasingly popular text messaging/blogging service from the makers of Odeo.

The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users — Twitter is a deceptively simple utility. That said, Twitter isn't for everyone. In fact it's probably not even for half of everyone. But for those that have the patience to find their personal sweet spot, Twitter can be quite good indeed.

5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good — I'm a big fan of Twitter, and have been using it heavily since the outset. For those of you not yet using it, Twitter is a communications gateway that asks the question: "What are you doing now?" Users can answer and hear their friends' answers via SMS, via IM, or on a webpage.

Twitter crowd goes bananas at SXSW — I've been resolutely ignoring Robert Scoble's frequent mentions of Twitter in the hope that it might go away. No such luck. Twitter has apparently infected the crowd at the SXSW conference in Austin to the point where it how has a Twitter screen of scrolling messages.

Where neo-nomads' ideas percolate — New 'bedouins' transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office — A new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco.

History, Digitized (and Abridged) — THE National Steinbeck Center, at the top of Main Street in this farming community, exhibits an array of artifacts from John Steinbeck's life and works: family memorabilia, a passport from the 1960s and movie stills from "The Grapes of Wrath."

9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers — A few lessons learned in 7 years of blogging. — I attended the Writing, Better panel here at SXSW. I've been thinking about it ever since, both because I wanted the conversation to go on for a few more hours and because so many people here are bloggers …

E Ink's blueChute bluetooth enabled e-ink concept — Even with certain forms of e-ink displays starting to drip drip drip into real world settings — see what we did there? — it's still unlikely that you'll meet someone on the street with some e-ink tech on their person.

Ten Things I Hate About You, Web 2.0 — The phrase "user-generated content." Has there ever been a more condescending or less descriptive phrase for human expression and creation and connection? — The techmeme pile-on effect. Why does everyone have to write about the same stuff all at once?

March 10, 2000: Pop! — 2000: The Nasdaq hits 5,048.62, the high-water mark of the dot-com boom. It's all downhill from here. — The boom is more accurately described as a bubble, since it rested largely on wild stock speculation and freewheeling venture capital investment that resulted …

Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved — ON Wednesday the Brazilian minister of culture, Gilberto Gil, is scheduled to speak about intellectual property rights, digital media and related topics at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Tex. Two nights later the singer …

Apple buffs marketing savvy to a high shine — LOS ANGELES - Apple's marketing machine has done it again. — While the biggest names in tech were in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show in January showing off new gadgets and gizmos, Apple gambled it could extract attention …

Edison the Inventor, Edison the Showman — This article was adapted from "The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World," by Randall Stross, a contributor to The New York Times. The book, to be published on Tuesday by Crown Publishers, examines the reality and the myths surrounding the Edison legacy.